¶ Blue Man, the Preakness; at Maryland's Pimlico race track. Driving up from next-to-last at the three-quarter-mile mark, and rated perfectly by Veteran Jockey Conn McCreary, long-striding Blue Man collared horse after horse and won, going away, by 3½ lengths. Time for the mile and three-sixteenths: 1:57.4, good enough to snag the $86,135 winner's purse for Owner Arthur Abbott, a Rye, N.Y. ice-cream maker and former minor-league ballplayer. With Kentucky Derby Winner Hill Gail out of action with an ankle ailment, 1952's Triple Crown is already split. But Blue Man's showing puts him...
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